Republican presidential candidate John McCain's website currently features ABBA's "Take A Chance," because the Senator simply loves the Seventies Swedish sensation*. From The Arizona Republic:

The intriguing - some might say disturbing - revelation occurred during the Johnjay and Rich show at 104.7 FM (KZZP). The presidential candidate called in at 6 a.m. as part of the duo's Who Do You Know contest, in which famous people phone in and stump for everyday folks to win a car….

"He said that a lot of people won't admit that they love ABBA, but he would," radio jock Rich Berra says. "Then he asked us if it was old-fashioned to like ABBA, and we said that it wasn't old-fashioned at all."

Oh, McCain, you adorable kook!

*Is that unpatriotic?

We were just rewatching the new ABBA documentary Super Troupers the other night, and it made us sad to think that Agnetha was so bitter over the way things turned out with the band that she wouldn't even get back together with her former husband and bandmates for the opening of the Mamma Mia musical in London. We're not saying she was wrong. Björn and Benny are getting all the royalty money for that very lucrative project, so Anni-Frid really showed up out of the kindness of her heart, and then her heel broke on stage. Poor thing.

Well someone other than her ex-husband managed to pull Agnetha's heartstrings because all four members of ABBA have reunited very briefly to sign exclusive memorabilia that will be auctioned off to benefit Fundacja Rownosci, a gay pride organization in Warsaw, Poland. Since Poland happens to be the 8th worst country for gays in the world, we wouldn't blame them if they used the money for some train tickets to Amsterdam.

ABBA Donates To Polish Gays [SF Bay Times via GaySexBlog]

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